Prayer Stations at Belmont

This week at Belmont, UKIRK tried something a little bit different.  It was a spiritual emphasis week for the entire campus, and all campus ministries were encouraged to host events that connected with the week's theme of Emerge.  We chose to explore that theme through the story of The Prodigal Son, especially the celebration of table fellowship at the end of the story.  We were registered as an official Convocation Credit event, so we had a number of visitor in our midst, and that was wonderful.

At one the stations, the instructions read as such:

1. Take a stickie note and write down names or groups of people you see missing at the Table; people who may be yet to feel welcomed at the Table of Love.
2. Add your stickie note to the cross, and whisper a prayer for all whom you might invite.

Here's what they wrote:

• Those struggling to see God in their lives
• People with big questions
• For all afraid to put their trust in God
• Those lost in the struggles of addiction
• For people who don't feel like they are "perfect" or "fit in"
• outcasts
• those who haven't been brought up in Christian homes
• those who have doubts
• Those struggling with belief
• LGBTQ
• The forgotten
• People who are lost, alone, or confused
• The broken-hearted
• Nancy
• Atheists and Terrorists
• Those battling addiction
• People who suffered loss on 9/11
• Kyle, Daniel, Atthar
• Roommate
• Refugees in America
• Friends who don't know the Lord
• Those who feel hopeless and lost

Lord, in your mercy...
...Hear our prayers